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  • Office / Ware House Projects

    • KEV GRESS STAIR

      Steel Stairs | Melbourne | Sydney | WA

    • FARM SHEDS

      SHEDS | Class 9 Structures

    • Fast Track to Tekla Career

      Fast Track to a Tekla Career

    • Exporting Tekla Models to Strumis in bswx format

    • How to Create a Curved Beam using the Tekla Open API (c#)

    • Tek1 RFI System

    • The fallacy of insurance in the building and construction industry – (Staff Memo)

    • You Need to Win Jobs at a Margin (Commercial Tips)

    • Collect a deposit: (Commercial Tips)

    • How to get fast variation approvals (or denials) on your construction projects?

    • Tekla - "open" api

      How to Debug a Tekla Plugin Without Restarting Visual Studio (Tekla Open API Tutorial)

    • Design Challenges: RFI and Amendment

    • 9 TRADE PLACE

    • RAAFA POOL EXTENSION

    • THE ENTRANCE HOTEL

  • Bracing rods and Turn Buckles

    Bracing rods and Turn Buckles

    Bracing Rod Lengths

    Maximum Lengths

    Turn Buckle Suppliers

    There is a maximum length for threaded rods we can procure.

    Very often the bracing lengths are more than these lengths.

    Maximum Lengths

     For D24 rod this is 9m max and for D20 rod this is 9.4m max. This means we will need to add breaks and turnbuckles to the oversized lengths.

    Turn Buckle Suppliers

    You have to look up the Turn buckle lengths from manufacturers catalogues.

    Here are some suppliers

    • https://www.alllifting.com.au/
    • https://aimsindustrial.com.au/
    • https://www.boltmasters.com.au/

  • Foot Bridge

    Foot Bridge

    Eglinton Street Foot Bridge

    Project Name

    Project description

    Our Services for the City

    The Standards we Follow AS4100 AS 1428 AS1657
    Our ServicesSteel Detailing, Precast Panel Detailing

    Interesting Steel Structures in Melbourne

    Foot Bridge
    Foot Bridge Shop Drawings

    Foot Bridge

    Location Eglinton

    Fabricator – Third Angle

  • Precast Take Off with Tekla Structures

    Precast Take Off with Tekla Structures

    Tek1 Provides Accurate Precast Panel Take offs

    Deliverables include

    Trimble Connect Model
    • Tekla Db1 file
    • IFC file
    • Rebar Schedule
    • Mesh Qty
    • Lifters
    • CIPs
    • Concrete Qty
    • Reo Weight per panel and Total
    • Snap shots
    • Special Comments
    (more…)
    PRECAST PANEL TAKE OFF
    PRECAST PANEL TAKE OFF
    • Tekla Db1 file
    • IFC file
    • Rebar Schedule
    • Mesh Qty
    • Lifters
    • CIPs
    • Concrete Qty
    • Reo Weight per panel and Total
    • Snap shots
    • Special Comments
    (more…)
    PRECAST PANEL TAKE OFF
    PRECAST PANEL TAKE OFF
    • Tekla Db1 file
    • IFC file
    • Rebar Schedule
    • Mesh Qty
    • Lifters
    • CIPs
    • Concrete Qty
    • Reo Weight per panel and Total
    • Snap shots
    • Special Comments
    (more…)
  • Steel Take Off

    Steel Take Off

    Accurate Steel Take off with Tekla Structures.

    Talk to us for low cast fast accurate take offs.

    Deliverable include

    • IFC Model
    • db1 file
    • Excel Reports
    • Snap shots
    • Our special comments
    • Surface treatment reports
  • How to load up Tekla DLLs and a Hello World Application (Tekla Open API Course)

    How to load up Tekla DLLs and a Hello World Application (Tekla Open API Course)

    This post and tutorial shows you how to set up your Tekla Dependencies (i.e. DLLs) on an Tekla Open API project:

    Source code:

    Directly Embedded code:

    Model model =  new Model();

if (model.GetConnectionStatus())
{
    Beam beam = new Beam();
    beam.StartPoint = new Point(0, 0, 0);
    beam.EndPoint = new Point(1000, 0, 0);
    beam.Profile.ProfileString = "UB150*14"; // make sure this is available in your environment.
    beam.Finish = "PAINT";

    beam.Insert();


    model.CommitChanges();
}

    Nuget Packages:

    And if you prefer vimeo (i.e. if you hate youtube ads) checkout this link:

    https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1196894990
  • Assembly Drawing Tutorial

    Assembly Drawing Tutorial

    Model and PDF

    Download Model and PDF from Google Drive

    Plan

    Split Large complitcated assemblies into sub assemblies.

    Preferably do that in the modeling stage. But if you have already modelled and do not want to change, split groups of parts into virtual sub assemblies for detailing purposes.

    Detail the the sub assemblies. That will reduce clutter in the main view of the drawng.

    Single Part Views

    Parts are cut to single part drawings, palletted and given to the boiler maker with Assembly drawing. Part drawings will be missing.

    But the boiler maker will need know some dimension in the parts to assemble the weldment correctly.

    Hence you may have to produce single part drawings within the assembly drawing.

    This will reduce clutter and make life easy for you as well as for the boiler maker. Make sure necessary single part drawings are added in the assy drg

    Detail Views

    In a cluttered drawing, main views will have many parts shown which basically makes those views very difficult to use.

    You add detail views and hide parts for clarity.

    Short Cuts

    You must have Show / Hide parts in drawing short cuts. Else you will spend a lot of time showing and hiding with right click

    Content for Subject 2

    Plan

    Single Part View

    Detail View

    Short Cuts

  • Tekla Open API Course (Full Outline)

    Tekla - "open" api
    The API is really closed, though it says it is open

    This is going to be a concise, high value and pithy course on the Tekla Open API.

    You may find other courses out there that boast about: 50+ hours. That might work well for them and their students, but almost everything you need to know can be boiled down to a few simple concepts. Especially helpful if you are an engineer and wanting to automate a few simple tasks. For more specialised requirements that involves making API calls, or developing web apps, you want to a workflow that is engineered by a professional – whether by Tek1 or other parties.

    The following documents the course.

    Video Course:

    Youtube Playlist of the Course (inclusive of all Tekla API related Material)

  • Introduction – Setting up your Environment (Tekla Open API Course)

    Tekla - "open" api
    The API is really closed, though it says it is open

    This is a course on how to program using Tekla’s Open API. We will start from the very beginning and get into some complicated topics. These are the principles I use when developing Tekla API applications.

    The following posts a video tutorial on how to get started using the Tekla Open API. The first thing you need is visual studio.

    Ensure you have enough memory on your C (or XYZ drive). If you do not have enough memory, then watch me trouble shoot this problem.

    Getting Set-up:

    • Ensure you have Windows 7+ installed.
    • Download Visual Studio (Community Edition) is fine for your purposes.
    • Ensure you are using .NET Framework (which is different to .NET Core and .NET 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 and upwards). They sounds similar, and it is confusing but you want the Framework version.
    • If you wish, you can download and use Resharper (which is helpful).